The original post: /r/amitheasshole by /u/Heracles180 on 2024-10-12 15:28:10.

Me (24M) and my older brother (29M) are in a tough spot right now: He currently unemployed, massively in debt and is a cocaine addict, on top of that, we know that he’s been stealing from my father’s business, and also stole 4 thousand from me throughout the year. I work as a school teacher, although recently I worked four months just to pay the credit card bill that my brother blew up (he went through my wallet, took my cc and registered on his phone). My father has hope that my brother can get better with treatment, but my brother keeps avoiding the question and insists on seeing a therapist and taking medication. I say to my father that’s bullshit and that he’s just taking advantage of my father.

FFT last week, my father gave my brother money to spend the weekend. Me and my brother are home, my brother asks for some fast-food, and insists on me paying for it, since he forgot his credit card and phone “somewhere”. I deny it to him several times. After being denied, my brother tries to take my wallet, I wrestle with him and take it back, after this, he goes for my phone, and calls our father. He makes himself the victim, calling me petty and egoistic and that I’m leaving him to “starve”. I tell what happened, and say that he doesn’t deserve a cent. My father says that I would pay, but reassures me he’ll pay me back the money.

After this little victory, my brother goes out the house calling me an asshole and a drama queen. I later call my father, and say to him that he doesn’t need the money nor does he need to eat junk, since there’s food at home. My father said that he would talk to him, however nothing of the sort happened from the following days.